Lukasz Olejnik on Cyber, Privacy and Tech Policy Critique
Lukasz OlejnikAssessments of current topics and events in cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy. What matters. Probably weekly.
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AI grinding: what happens when cryptanalytic ideas become cheap?
The strange thing about using AI for analysing cryptography - ciphers, hash functions, digital signatures, etc. - is that getting ideas is not the hard part. Getting rid of bad ideas is.
I don’t have a PhD in cryptography, nor math. Okay,...
TechLetters ☕️ AI accelerates attacks on industrial control systems. Pro-Russian hackers expose Spanish security personnel. Data of 68% Latvian and 50% Poland (medical records) population leaked.
Security
Cyber threat actors are using AI to accelerate attacks on industrial control systems, targeting of Siemens S7 PLCs. Attackers are scanning the internet for exposed controllers. Campaign is focused on critical manufacturing, ener...
TechLetters ☕️ McEliece post-quantum crypto gets a A PUNCH IN THE FACE? US creates cyber-privateers. Cyber norms face a stress test. French tax office breach exposes 678,000 people.
Security
A major result in post-quantum cryptography. A key security assumption behind Classic McEliece, a public-key encryption system considered to resist quantum computers, has been undermined. Researchers found a provable quasipolyno...
We ran the first fully autonomous end-to-end information operation (TechLetters Insights)
We conducted the first fully autonomous information operation under controlled conditions. It ran inside a simulated social platform.
Inside IO Factory, an AI campaign manager and AI information operators carried the operation end to end....
TechLetters ☕️ AI agents coordinate hacking. Claude and DeepSeek become a cyberattack team. CAPTCHA falls. Agents leave instructions for agents. AI writes viable virus genomes.
Security
And another one! AI agents took unsanctioned action online in 10 of 122 runs, 17 actions came from Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and two from OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. One agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project, cre...
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